"I put her in charge of all of that because like early on I figured, well you know, I might have a grandchild one day who wants to see this stuff, but I don't want to live with this stuff in my house," Washington said. "So I send it all to my mother and she archives it. She gets to be proud."

"Same with me," DeGeneres responded.

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